BAYARD, THOMAS FRANCIS American diplomatist, was born in Wilmington, Del., on Oct. 29, 1828, of a distinguished family. His great-grandfather, Richard Bassett governor of Delaware; his grandfather, James Ashe ton Bayard (1767-1815), a prominent Federalist, and one of the United States commissioners who negotiated the treaty of Ghent with Great Britain after the War of 1812; his uncle, Richard Henry Bayard (1796-1868) ; and his father, James Asheton Bay ard (5799-5880), a well-known constitutional lawyer, all repre sented Delaware in the U.S. Senate. In 1848 he began the study of law in the office of his father, and was admitted to the bar in 1851 and practised chiefly in Wilmington. He was a U.S. senator from Delaware from 1869 to 1885. His abilities made him a leader of the Democrats in the Senate, and his views on financial and legal questions gave him a high reputation for statesmanship. He was a member of the electoral commission of 1877. In the Democratic national conventions of 1872, 1876, 188o and 1884 he received votes for nomination as the party candidate for the presidency. He was secretary of State, 5885-5889, during the first administra tion of President Cleveland, and pursued a conservative policy in foreign affairs. As ambassador to Great Britain, 1893-97, he was considered by many Americans to have become too partial to English ways and for the expression of some criticisms regarded as unfavourable to his own countrymen, the House of Representa tives went so far as to pass on Nov. 7, 1895, a vote of censure on him. The value of his diplomacy was, however, fully recognized in the United Kingdom, where he worthily upheld the traditions of a famous line of American ministers. He was the first repre sentative of the United States in Great Britain to hold the diplo matic rank of an ambassador. He died in Dedham, Mass., on Sept. 28, 1898.
Ilis son THOMAS FRANCIS BAYARD ), lawyer and politician, was born in Wilmington, Del., June 4, 1868. He gradu ated at Yale in 1890, studied law at the Yale law school, 1890-91, and -in his father's office in Wilmington until his admission to the Delaware bar in 1893. From 1906 to 1916 he was chairman of the Democratic State committee, and from 1917 to 1919 was city solicitor, Wilmington. In 1922 he was elected to the U.S. Senate. He was the fifth member of his family to attain that office, his great-great-grandfather, great-grandfather, great-uncle and father, each in his time, having been chosen U.S. senator. This remark able record for distinguished public service, generation after gen eration, is probably unequalled by any other family in America.